A01=Peter Cheyney
Author_Peter Cheyney
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crime fiction
crime novel set in London
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French film
missing man
murder
mystery
noir
private detective
Set-up for Murder
Slim Callaghan Series
suspense
The Murder Room
thriller
Product details
- ISBN 9781471901652
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2014
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It's wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie's Place.
Callaghan knows Gringall has something up his sleeve. And when, backstage, Doria asks him to take on a job - to find her boyfriend Lionel Wilbery, a poet with the wrong friends and a drug problem - Callaghan finds Gringall has more than a missing person in his sights.
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney was born in Whitechapel in the East End of London. After serving as a lieutenant during the First World War, he worked as a police reporter and freelance investigator until he found success with his first Lemmy Caution novel. In his lifetime Cheyney was a prolific and wildly successful author, selling, in 1946 alone, over 1.5 million copies of his books. His work was also enormously popular in France, and inspired Jean-Luc Godard's character of the same name in his dystopian sci-fi film Alphaville. The master of British noir, in Lemmy Caution Peter Cheyney created the blueprint for the tough-talking, hard-drinking pulp fiction detective.
